Massive explosions were recorded in the western Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi, in what was likely the detonation of a Soviet-era rocket fuel storage facility, similar to a recent Russian cruise missile strike on Pavlograd.

Pro Russian sources are claiming a warehouse with Western munitions and weapons was hit, but the ballooning fireballs are more in line with fuel or oil burning, not explosive munitions. There is reportedly a local facility that stores expired rocket fuel from the Soviet nuclear arms race.

If Russian is responsible for the attack, it is unclear why they would choose such a target. It's possible they wanted to detonate it for the spectacle or perhaps they think Ukraine will find a way to recycle the rocket fuel into weaponry.

The casualty figures for the explosion have yet to be released.

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